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Ayr, North Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ayr Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58007. The Survey maps it on the Ayr quadrangle. 11 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,204 feet above sea level.

Ayr within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

Ayr fell from 17 to 11 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201017
202011-6 (-35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Ayr in 2020, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServicePILGRIM'S BALE FIRE
1 June 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBNSF GRASS FIRE @ 141ST AVE S E

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

18 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ayr in 18 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2008HailAyr$10,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindAyr-NDAWN at Ayr 1NW measured a wind gust of 96 mph at the 10 meter height sensor.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindAyr-Peak wind was measured at n NDAWN station at the 10 meter height.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindAyr-Peak wind was measured at a North Dakota DOT RWIS station.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindAyr-Peak wind was reported by an NDAWN station at the 10-meter height.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindAyr-The peak wind was measured at a North Dakota DOT RWIS station.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindAyr-The wind gust was measured by a RWIS mesonet station.
July 2017HailAyr-The hail was accompanied by brief strong winds.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindAyr-The wind gust was measured by the ND DOT RWIS site along highway 38.
July 2011Tornado (EF0)Ayr-The tornado touchdown was visible from near Ayr. Tree branches and limbs were broken down along a narrow path in two shelterbelts. Two smaller trees were snapped and thrown about in a farm yard. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph.
July 2011Funnel CloudAyr-A sequence of two short lived funnels was viewed from near Wheatland. The funnels appeared to come down about one-third of the way from the cloud and then go back up again. From this distance, these funnels likely produced the brief tornado touchdown three miles south of Ayr.
May 2007Tornado (EF1)Ayr-Four 2400 bushel grain bins were destroyed. A motorhome was damaged and numerous tree branches were broken off in shelterbelts along the path. Peak tornadic winds were estimated at 100 to 105 mph.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindAyr-Many trees were blown down.
July 2015HailAyr-no account filed
June 2002HailAyr-no account filed
June 2002HailAyr-no account filed
August 2002HailAyr-no account filed
August 2002HailAyr-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Erie Junction6.7 miles9
Absaraka6.7 miles11
Erie7.5 miles9
Nolan7.6 miles8
Mason8.9 miles8
Buffalo8.9 miles10
Page9.2 miles8
Magnolia9.4 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on AyrAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2447136The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1027775. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.